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This volume brings together classic and contemporary scholarly essays on imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The text opens with an introductory essay followed by a presentation of authoritative but conflicting views, encouraging students to interpret and evaluate the issue for themselves.

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Chronology of Events Reference Maps: African States in 1884; Africa in 1914; The Caribbean, 1989-1916; South and East Asia in 1914Introduction 1. The "New Imperialism"J.A. Hobson, ImperialismW.E.B. DuBois, The Color Line Belts the WorldM.K. Gandhi, The Disease of CivilizationRosa Luxemburg, Capitalism Depends on the Non-Capitalist WorldV.I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of CapitalismJoseph A. Schumpeter, The Sociology of ImperialismsHo Chi Minh, The Struggle Lies in the Colonies 2. The Imperial MissionRudyard Kipling, The White Man's BurdenAlice L. Conklin, The French Republican Civilizing MissionMichael Adas, The Machine as CivilizerAdrian Hastings, Christianity, Civilization, and CommerceDavid Arnold, Medicine and the Colonization of the Body in IndiaTimothy Burke, Colonialism, Cleanliness, and Civilization in Colonial Rhodesia 3. Europe in the EmpireCatherine Hall, An Imperial Man in Australasia and the West IndiesFrances Gouda, Dutch Women in the East IndiesGwendolyn Wright, Residential Segregation and Colonial Architecture in MoroccoAnn Laura Stoler, Gender, Race, and Class Boundaries in Southeast AsiaOwen White, Miscegenation and Identity in French West Africa 4. The Empire in EuropeZeynep Çelik, Displaying the OrientAnne McClintock, Advertising the EmpireAntoinette Burton, Indian Travellers in Victorian BritainTyler Stovall, Colonial Workers in France During the Great WarDoris Reiprich and Erika Ngambi ul Kuo, An Afro-German Family 5. Anticolonial ResistanceJames C. Scott, Peasant Weapons of the WeakFrederick Cooper, Wage Labor and Anticolonial Resistance in Colonial KenyaJulia Clancy-Smith, Saint or Rebel? Resistance in French North AfricaBenedict Anderson, Imagined Community in Anticolonial NationalismPartha Chatterjee, The Nation and the Home Suggestions for Further Reading